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Wish recipient Jane Anderson of
Monterey, CA in a gown granted
thru Brides Against Breast Cancer.
Photo courtesy of Making Memories
You were lucky enough to find the wedding gown of your dreams, and you looked stunning in it.
Now that the wedding’s over, what are you going to do with that once in a lifetime dress? Let it sit in a box under your bed? Or hang in a garment bag, taking up vast amounts of closet space?
Instead, give it a second life and make not one, but two more dreams come true. Donate it to the Brides Against Breast Cancer program for the Making Memories Breast Cancer Foundation.
Making Memories’ mission is a compassionate one — to give final wishes to women and men suffering from terminal breast cancer. Executive Director Patti Lange says, “Our objective is to make a memory with the granting of wishes for stage IV breast cancer victims that will overshadow the visual reminders of hospitals like their smells, tubes, tests and side effects.”
Elizabeth Hasselbeck, co-host of The View,
trying on a Brides Against Breast Cancer
dress. Photo courtesy of Making Memories.
Granted wishes include court-side seats to a Lakers Game, a family vacation to Disney World for a mother and her young children, a trip to see the majestic Canadian Rockies, and video cameras used to leave video messages to children as they grow up.
The Brides Against Breast Cancer (BABC) program enables the foundation to make approximately 100 such dreams come true a year. Lange is proud to say they have yet to refuse a single wish. BABC is Making Memories' primary fundraising event for granting these special wishes.
Nationwide Tour of Gowns
Dresses donated to BABC are taken on a Nationwide Tour of Gowns sale to over 30 cities. Brides-to-be can go to their local BABC event to look among a staggering 1,200 gowns to find that dress of their dreams at amazingly discounted prices, from $99 to $799.
Brides-to-be shopping at BABC dress sale.
Photo courtesy of Making Memories
Approximately half of the dresses are donated from generous brides, but the other half are brand new designer gowns donated directly from famous designers, manufacturers and bridal retailers. Exclusive couture gowns valued up to $20,000 have even been available at 75% off.
When the BABC program was founded in 1998 it received just five gowns a month. But in 2000, the foundation's wish program captured the attention of Oprah after granting its first wish to Nancy White Kelly — a family reunion with all 31 of her family members. The talk show host featured the program on an Oprah's Angel Network episode, bringing it national attention. Since then, they have received some 25 gowns a day and have had to invest in a warehouse, trucks and trailers to accommodate all the donations — 50,000 wedding gowns at an estimated resale value of over $4 million.
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